Overview
- Introduces technologies that can balance electricity in energy systems
- Describes current policies and political developments
- The main challenges for balancing technologies and processes within a system including renewable energies are summarised and recommendations made
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment (ETHICSSCI, volume 40)
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About this book
The study introduces technologies that can balance electricity in energy systems and that can serve as enabling technologies for the integration of large quantities of renewable energies in the power supply system. It begins with a discussion of normativeaims for the future electricity system before continuing with a description of current policies and political developments and an overview of relevant existing energy system studies. These sections serve as background for the remainder of the study. They are followed by discussion and analysis of the growing demand for means to balance the fluctuations found in electricity generated in power systems with a high penetration of renewable energies, the potentials of diverse technologies, requirements for electrical networks, economic impacts and important legal issues. Finally, the main challenges to the achievement of developing balancing technologies and processes for renewable electricity-dominant systems are summarised and recommendations made.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Balancing Renewable Electricity
Book Subtitle: Energy Storage, Demand Side Management, and Network Extension from an Interdisciplinary Perspective
Authors: Bert Droste-Franke, Boris P. Paal, Christian Rehtanz, Dirk Uwe Sauer, Jens-Peter Schneider, Miranda Schreurs, Thomas Ziesemer
Series Title: Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25157-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-25156-6Published: 02 February 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43641-3Published: 23 February 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-25157-3Published: 21 January 2012
Series ISSN: 1860-4803
Series E-ISSN: 1860-4811
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLVIII, 256
Topics: Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks, Renewable and Green Energy, Ethics, Energy, general